Tag: The Ones-at-Large
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Political Gnosticism & Far Right Wing Implosion
Oh, America… your ultra right wing folk have utterly melted down. This gent offers a “stiff-upper-lip comrades, we shall soldier on to save the barbarians from themselves” on the one hand and then succumbs to utter doom on the other. Really, just more of the same witch-hunt BS with which…
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Class, Race, & Economic Discipline
As always, a nice find by my good brother Carl Sachs. Very interesting. Notwithstanding slavery, segregation and today’s covert racism, the Southern system has always been based on economics, not race. Its rulers have always seen the comparative advantage of the South as arising from the South’s character as a…
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Rigorous Quantification and Disciplinary Rigidity
Epistemology can be translated as the study of how we know or an account of how we know. In the article I link to below, UT PhD candidate Mark Coddington does a nice job delineating the different situations which generate the epistemological orientations of political journalists vs. that of social…
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Poll Quants & the Book of Life
I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World into the Book of Life. Among the methodological tools for…
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The Antidote to Ayn Rand < Truthout.org
The last word of Ayn Rand’s dystopian novella Anthem is “EGO.” Grasping the significance of this forbidden word is a kind of divine revelation for the novel’s protagonist, signaling his emancipation from the benighted, collectivist society into which he was born. I read Anthem in the 8th grade and, like…
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Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine
Really bad ass unofficial video for Kanye West’s “Who will survive in a America…” Kanye West – Who Will survive in America « Whitezine | Design Graphic & Photography Inspirations.
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Speak the Truth & Shame the Devil!
Calling lies “lies” and theft “theft” and violence “violence,” loudly, clearly, and consistently, until truth becomes more than a bump in the road, is a powerful aspect of political activism. Much of the work around human rights begins with accurately and aggressively reframing the status quo as an outrage, whether…
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The Book of Life
A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing addressed in the article is how getting an education no…
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The Matter of Anti-Philosophy
Massimo Pigliucci criticizes Lawrence Krauss and the current habit of physicists who speak despairingly of philosophy. Very much worth the read. I give you here a quote he pulls from Einstein in defense of philosophizing… I fully agree with you about the significance and educational value of methodology as well…
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Review for new book: “What Can You Really Know?”
A tad meandering for a book review, but the conclusion is of interest. When and why did philosophy lose its bite? How did it become a toothless relic of past glories? These are the ugly questions that Jim Holt’s book compels us to ask. Philosophers became insignificant when philosophy became…
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